Visited Zhenya today at Boyarka Orphanage, which is located about an hour outside of Minsk. There are 30 children living there right now. It is an excellent orphanage and Gallina, the director is of the highest caliber. The children sang and danced for us. Some had been to the United States last summer for health respite and they thanked us. Others, approached Linda and I privately and asked us to find homes for them, both forever homes and for respite. Three of the teenaged boys in particular were quite sweet, Dennis, Misha and Sasha. I was also quite taken with three Sri Lanka siblings, all girls. There Ukrainian mother has died and their father cannot take care of them, no one else in the family wants them because they are considered half breeds here. They are beautiful children and take care of one another. They also have a younger brother who is three. They need to be adopted together. Carole from Global Alliance had glow sticks and gum for them and we had a lot of fun handing it out. The older boys walked Linda and I to a local bank to exchange money.
Good to see Zhenya doing well! Can you get an address for him?
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ReplyDeleteWe are with Xenia and his host family, please, do you know where we can contact the orphanage? We are attempting to get him a Visa and keep in contact with him during the long and tolling paper-work process.
ReplyDeletewe wish to send him letters and gifts.so the address or anyway to contact the orphanage would be nice
ReplyDeleteDo you by any chance know the name of the Orphanage itself? I'm very sorry to bug you but the thing is that we need to know this as soon as possible :( I hope you can understand.
ReplyDeletewe contacted liza and she told us to call you friday.we will
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ReplyDeleteBJ are you available ?
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